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Same truck when I was done. I also molded in a 59 oldsmobile gauge cluster to the factory dash.

Choke wasn't hooked up at all because I wasn't going to keep that carb anyways. Nothing confusing about mopars stock charging/ignition systems. They are just crap and have too many things cluttering up the engine bay. There is a reason they make hei distributors for everything under the sun.

It was just holding the choke open because the choke wasn't hooked up. I later swapped carbs. I also rewired everything under the hood to get rid of the previous owners rat nest and also because mopar ignition and charging systems are total crap.

Ha, that's my old truck. That video was right after I got it home and swapped engines. I later swapped in another slant and od 4 speed, painted it a cream white with a gold flake roof. I dailt drove it for about 5 years, got bored with it and sold it to my buddy who small blocked it and is still rolling it.

Trying to add more picturesbut the upload limit isn't letting me and photobucket shooting themselves in the foot kind of screwed everything up...

Been a while, quick catch up.... Decided to subframe the chopped 50 with an 88 S10 clip then stopped talking to the chopped 50 for a bit, bought a 73 bug, sold the bug, bought a pretty much stock non running 50 Windsor Newport, put a 66 slant 6 twist linkage carb on it 5 mins after we unloaded it and it fired right up. Adjusted the valves, re built the brakes and traded it for an 81ram swb with a slant 6 and od 4 speed. This truck is now my daily driver. In this time I also swapped the t350 for a 700r4 in my 79 g10 van and installed rear disk brakes and spent some time in the shithole known as Port Arthur Texas welding on a fuel barge. I am now back on talking to the chopped 50 again and pulled the body off the frame and started prepping it for the 4 link and hydraulic suspension (front, back and pancake. Not building a hopper). The body had to come off so I could replace the flattened body mounts so the body would be at the right height so the front sheetmetal would line up so I can build a new core support so I can mount the radiator so I can mount the engine and notch the firewall. It's all easier than it sounds but things like work and remodeling the back yard so we can sell the house and move to Arizona in 5 years are getting in the way...

Sold one of the boats, still working on the chopped 50 Chrysler with the S10 subframe that's getting the built slant six and 4 speed. Trying to decide on a stout rear end that will hold up to some severe abuse. Getting ready to either use the Art Morrison back half I have or just 4 link the stock frame before I run the hydraulics.

Kind of hoping that someone has a stock rear laying around that they could measure. Like an idiot I sold the 2 stock rears I had along with the 50 Newport I just got rid of.

I've seen that one but like you said, Im not sure if they are the same.

Yes, the flat surface that the wheel rests on.

What is the exact measurement of the wheel mount surface to wheel mount surface on a 50 Chrysler rear end?

Any pics of your install? I'm looking for ideas for my 50 Chrysler.

NICE!!! Here's my chopped 50 Chrysler.

Got an email from Scarebird today with the install sheet for a 50 Chrysler attached...

What options are there for a bolt on kit for a 50 Chrysler Windsor? Scarebird is only a few miles from me and I have used their brackets in the past on a 56 Oldsmobile, very nice brackets! Just wondering if anyone has used their 50 Chrysler kit?

Good info, thanks! After I knock out the metal work on the body I will be upgrading the slant I had in my 69 D100 before I sold it to my buddy. It's already rebuilt and runs awesome with under 5000 miles. 60 over, 10/10 rods and mains, mild port on the head, offy 4bbl, headers and a crappy clifford 268 cam. Plan is to clean it, sand it, repaint it, throw on one of the big valve fully ported SCCA race heads, slam in an old Isky 505A cam (or get a regrind that's bigger) and run the triple Weber side draft set up I have under the bench. That with a rebuilt overdrive 4 speed and 3.55 sure grip should do the trick. I am planning on running the seats and console out of a early-mid 60's Thunderbird (curved back seat) so shifter placement wont be and issue.

Future plans are to clone the Dragmaster Dart Six rail using the original Hilborn injection unit off it (took me 13 years to find it). I also tracked down the original engine from the rail but I am still waiting to hear from the owner. Plan will be to shoot for the mid 9's in the 1/4. It was running mid 10's in 1964 so I figure with cam and transmission technology now days there is no reason why it couldn't hit the mid 9's. Already talked to Dode Martin one of the builders, just waiting for a call from Steve Layton, the driver.

https://www.facebook.com/EverythingLow/videos/905712792869667/ Can't find the youtube link to this video but here it is on the book of faces.

I'm shooting for something like this but with a VERY nasty slant six. I have more than enough rare slant goodies to make it happen. That red is almost the same color I'm planning for my 50.

My dad paid $200 for a complete car, pulled what he needed and scrapped the rest.

My dad has been installing them in 53-56 F-100 pick ups and other hot rods/customs for years. They ride nice and are easy to get parts for. This is the one I helped setup in his current 54 F-100 project.

I got it off craigslist from a guy in Bothell, It looked like a goofey rat rod, had some scary stuff done to the rear suspension and the engine started knocking and overheating on 405. I tore it all apart, replaced about everything, repainted it and had it as my year round daily driver for a few years. I just sold it to my buddy and he dropped in a smallblock.

Will 50 Dodge Coronet rear fenders bolt onto and fit a 50 Chrysler Windsor? I know the gravel guards aren't the same but I just need something that fits the hole and matches up with the bumper. If the dodge fenders won't work what other years/makes will work?

I spent 13 years tracking down the very first Hilborn unit made for a slant and found it sitting on a garage floor along with 2 old SCCA race engines and a pile of other parts including a Joe Hunt mag. One of the engines was the same one that was in a 65 Alfa that was run at SIR in Seattle, my dad was on the team that ran it. One of the guys on my dads team knew one of the guys on the Dragmaster team, they did some tradeing and ended up with the Hilborn unit. After talking to Carol at Hilborn it turns out that this is actually their prototype and was originally sold to Keith Black in 1966 when he was building a slant powered hydroplane. They built 12 injection units and sold them from 1968 to 1972. This one looks and mounts nothing like the other 11 units sold. The production units bolt to the head just like a stock intake where as this one needs an adapter. Plans are to eventually clone the Dragmaster Dart Six rail and shoot for the mid 9's on alcohol. I think I have also tracked down the original engine from the rail in St. George, UT where it was used for land speed racing by Wilford Day and later he turned it into a table in his livingroom. Im working on contacting his relatives.